Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

San Francisco is made up of how many ecosystems?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• More than 3

Check all that apply: In ecosystems there are constant interactions between...

• biotic factors

• construction factors

• abiotic factors

• human laws

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What is it called when human beings are part of an ecosystem and benefit from it?

• human benefits

• biodiversity

• mutualism

• ecosystem services

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Healthy forest systems take large amounts of which gas out of the atmosphere?

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• carbon monoxide

• methane

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Which organism's shell mentioned in the reading can remove metals from water?

• crab

• clam

• snail

• oyster

True or False: The biodiversity of an ecosystem is important because each population of organisms has a special role to play in a healthy ecosystem.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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Check all that apply: When biodiversity is reduced, what can suffer?

• Water purification

• Natural beauty

• species

• humans

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Are non-human species capable of changing an ecosystem/ their environment?

• Yes

• No

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Check all that apply: Why would existing life forms be removed from an area?

• Due to human wants and desires

• To make room for crops

• To mine for metals

• commensalism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1